Looks like we need one of these! We’re still in light blogging mode as we all still busy celebrating holidays and friends and family. Personally, this is my favorite time of the year. How are your holidays going?
President Obama was on Face the Nation this AM, talking with lazy David Gregory about the fiscal cliff, how Republicans can’t figure out how to say yes to anything, AND that this is not a “both sides do it” issue (repubs are clearly the issue), Bengahzi, Chained CPI, pours water on the armed guards in schools stupidity, and the need to do immigration reform now (this is about 28 mins long):
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WTF is wrong with people? A woman in NY is arrested and charged for shoving a man in front of a subway train. Why? Because she thought he was Muslim.
Joe Biden is Back for a Second Run at Gun Limits Good:
Mr. Biden was at the White House when the Newtown massacre occurred. With the shootings coming just days before the 40th anniversary of the car accident that killed his first wife and baby daughter, an aide said, “all he could think about was those parents getting the same devastating phone call” that he once did.
After Mr. Obama assigned him to develop a response, Mr. Biden followed his 1990s script, inviting law enforcement leaders to the White House to harness their ideas and public credibility. “I’ve been in Washington over 20 years, and this was unique,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “There is a sense of importance and urgency to this issue.”
Ms. Feinstein plans to reintroduce the assault weapons bill with a more inclusive definition, banning even those with just “one or more military characteristics.” It identifies 120 guns by name whose manufacture and sale would be banned, and it would outlaw certain modifications used to bypass the last law.
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